39th Foundation Day Celebrations

Board of Governors & Board of Managementcordially invite you to grace the occasion

at 3.00 pm on Saturday, the 10th August 2019

VenueDr. Yellapragada Subbarao Auditorium, GIMSR, GITAM Campus

Gandhi Nagar, RushikondaVisakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh

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'GITAM Foundation Award’ is instituted with a benevolent donation by Dr. M.V.V.S. Murthi, with a corpus of ̀ 30 million. As per the desire of the donor, a part of the interest earned is presented as ‘GITAM Foundation Award’ on GITAM Foundation Day every year to an eminent person in recognition of the exemplary services rendered by him / her in the chosen field for the benefit of the society at large.

GITAM Foundation Award is aimed at recognizing personalities for their outstanding contributions to any of the fields of Education, Economics, Science, Literature, Fine Arts, Public Service, etc. An eminent personality is chosen and the contributions are made known to the larger public by way of a public lecture. The GITAM Foundation Award consisting of a plaque and a cheque for rupees one million is presented to the eminent personality in recognition of the services to humanity on that day.

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The vision of MAHATMA, the Father of the Nation was to see India as a socially and economically resurgent country and he looked upon education as an important means to achieve this goal. To fulfill his dream, Gandhi Institute of Technology and Management (GITAM) came into existence in 1980. Gandhiji’s view of education was not narrow or sectarian. He envisaged universities as institutions of higher learning that transcend all linguistic, racial and other barriers. GITAM is committed to imbibe his values and abide by his philosophy. On 13th August, 2007, GITAM was declared as a Deemed to be University u/s 3 of the UGCthe UGC Act, 1956 through a notification issued by MHRD.Along with its impressive progress in the academic arena and in tune with the vision of GITAM, the Institute has quickly expanded its geographic spread by establishing Hyderabad campus in 2009 and Bengaluru campus in 2012, in the state capitals of Telangana and Karnataka respectively. It is a matter of great pride that GITAM was accredited with A+ grade by NAAC. The University Grants Commission has accorded 12(B) status to the University facilitating research funding. UGC also accorded, Category-I graded Autonomy to GITAM. Having completed 39 years of its existence GITAM has now grown to the stature of a premier higher education institute in the country with 190 UG, PG, Doctoral and other programs in diverse disciplines with 22,000 regular students, 85,000 students in distance mode, 1300 faculty members and 1200 research scholars. GITAM has all the major disciplines – Technology, Management, International Business, Pharmacy, Science, Architecture, Humanities and Social Sciences, Law, Medicine, Nursing and Gandhian Studies, in addition to the Centre for Distance Learning.

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39th Foundation Day Celebrations

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Chief Guest

Shri. Pranab MukherjeeBharat Ratna Awardee13th President of India

Presentation of GITAM Foundation Awardin the presence of

Shri. M. Sri BhaShri. M. Sri BharatPresident, GITAM

Prof. K. Siva Rama KrishnaVice-Chancellor, GITAM (Deemed to be University)

will preside

Venue: Dr. Yellapragada Subbarao Auditorium, GIMSR, GITAM (Deemed to be University)

at 3.00 pm on Saturday, the 10th August 2019

Shri. Pranab MukherjeeBharat Ratna Awardee

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Decorated by Bharat Ratna, the highest civilian award of the Republic of India in 2019, Shri Pranab Mukherjee was the 13th President of India from 2012 to 2017, crowning a polical career of over five decades of exemplary service to the naon in the Government as well as the Parliament.Shri Mukherjee is a man of unparalleled experience in governance with the rare disncon of having served at different mes as Foreign, Defence, Commerce and Finance Minister. He was elected to the Rajya Sabha five mes and twice to the Lok Sabha. Shri Mukherjee was instrumental in spearheading crical decisions of the Government on a range of issues such as Administrave reforms, Right to Informaon, Right to Employment, Food Security, Energy Security, Informaon Technology and Telecommunicaons, se ng up of UIDAI, Metro Rail etc., through Chairmanship of over 95 Groups of Ministers constuted for various purposes. In the sevenes and eighes, he was instrumental in se ng up the Regional Rural Banks and the EXIM Bank of India as well as Naonal Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development. Shri Mukherjee was also author of a modified formula for resourresource sharing between the Centre and the States in 1991 which came to be known as the Gadgil - Mukherjee formula. Shri Mukherjee has extensive diplomac experience and has served on the Board of Governors of the IMF, World Bank, Asian Development Bank and African Development Bank. A prolific reader, Shri Mukherjee has authored several books on the Indian Economy and on Naon Building. The many awards and honours conferred on him include India’s second highest civilian award, Padma Vibhushan in 2008, the Best Parliamentarian Award in 1997 and Best Administrator in India Award in 2011. He was rated one of the best five Finance Ministers of the world in 1984 according to a survey conducted by "Euro Money” Journal published from New York and was declared ‘Finance Minister of the year’ for Asia in 2010 by "Emerging Markets”, the journal of record for the World Bank and the IMF. An avid traveller, there are few parts of India and few countries in the world he has not visited in his illustrious and long public career. GITAM is proud to honor Bharat Ratna Pranab Mukherjee with the GITAM Foundaon Award for his exemplary service to the naon.

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Dr. Karan Singh, Member of Parliament (RS) and President, Indian Council for Cultural Relations is a renowned philanthropist and educationist. He held several positions including that of a Union Cabinet Minister. He was awarded “Padma Vibhushan” by the Govt. of India in 2005.

Sri P. K. Bishnoi is a Financial Wizard and former CMD, RINL, VSP. He was chief architect of turnaround of Visakhapatnam Steel Plant. He was awarded ‘Udyog Ratan’ by the Govt. of India.

DDr. P. M. S. Prasad is the whole-time Director of Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) and his recgonized world over as one of the finest professionals in the Energy Industry .

Dr. Sanjaya Baru, former Media Advisor to the Prime Minister of India and Editor, Business Standard, is one of India’s most respected and influential commentators on political and economic issues.

JusticeJustice B.Sudershan Reddy, former Judge, Supreme Court of India, is well-known for several landmark judgments of national importance.

Dr. M.S.Swaminathan is known as the "Father of Green Revolution in India". He is the Founder Chairman of MS Swaminathan Research Foundation started to realize the goals of “Sustainable development” now called as “Evergreen Revolution”. He was awarded “Padma Bhushan” in the year 1972 and “Padma Vibhushan” in 1989 by the Govt. of India.

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Dr. V.R.Panchamukhi is an accomplished scholar in Sanskrit and a renowned economist. He made path-breaking and seminal contributions to the field of Economics as well as promotion of Sanskrit and Indology.

Dr. C.Rangarajan is an accomplished economist, Former Governor of RBI, Governor of Andhra Pradesh and Chairman of the Economic Advisory Council to the Former Prime Minister of India. He was awarded “Padma Vibhushan” by the Govt. of India in 2002.

DDr. A. Sivathanu Pillai is a distinguished missile technologist of world repute and a proud son of India. He is called the father of BRAHMOS, the fastest and highly precise missile of India. Dr. Pillai’s outstanding leadership qualities made India proud to possess the most potent missile BRAHMOS which is now inducted in the Indian Armed Forces. He was awarded “Padma Shri” by the Govt. of India in 2002.

Prof.Prof. C.N.R. Rao is a world renowned scientist in Solid State Chemistry and Materials Science. He has published 1630 research papers and either authored or edited 50 books and received honorary doctorates from 60 universities. He was honoured with the highest civilian award “Bharat Ratna” in 2014.

DDr. Takaaki Kajita is a world renowned Japanese physicist, working on Cosmic Ray Physics, won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics for his “revolutionary neutrino experiments at the Kamiokande and Super-Kamio-kande detectors in the Kamioka mines of Japan”.

Dr. Michael W. Young is a world renowned biologist and geneticist, who was awarded 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine along with Jeffrey C. Hall and Michael Rosbash for “discovering molecular mechanisms that regulate the circadian rhythm (the 24-hour period of biological activity) in humans and other organisms”.

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